I saw Little Pelosi's documentary on the family a ways back and Ted can be an incredibly charismatic person, so there probably was infatuation at some points in the relationship. As long as he isn't on the public preaching intolerance circuit, I can actually feel some sympathy for him because he'll always have a big disconnect between some very strong religious beliefs and how he's biologically wired, and that's going to continue to make him a fundamentally unhappy person, no matter how much repression 'therapy' he puts himself through.